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Zhufeng Chen
Zhufeng Chen

Reputation: 21

trying to write string to a txt file in swift

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        // Save data to file
        let path = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "Test", ofType: "txt")
        let fileURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: path!)
        let text = "write this\n and this"

        do {
            try text.write(to: fileURL, atomically: true, encoding: String.Encoding.utf8)
        } catch {
            print("error")
        }
    }
}

I want to put the text into the txt file which I already put in the project folder, but after running the code, the Test.txt file is still empty.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3037

Answers (1)

Mozahler
Mozahler

Reputation: 5303

Please check out the documentation link above. There are a couple of places you can write files, this is just one of them:

        let userDocumentsFolder = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.documentDirectory, .userDomainMask, true)[0]
        let path = userDocumentsFolder.stringByAppendingPathComponent("Test.txt")
        let fileURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: path)
        let text = "write this\n and this"

        do {
            try text.write(to: fileURL, atomically: true, encoding: String.Encoding.utf8)
        } catch {
            print("error")
        }

Upvotes: 2

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